Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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N.E.T. JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "Head Start in Mississippi" tells of the war within the war on poverty, focusing on the rise and fall of the pilot Head Start group in Durant, Miss...
...local boards. The five men who sit for two or three hours a month as a local board often do not represent the people they classify. It is unfair to claim that only a representative body can do justice, but it is doubtful that the boards in Mississippi, where no Negro sits on a draft board, or Chicago, where board members often do not live in the neighborhoods they serve, can avoid some off-hand bigotry. Besides, the prime argument for having local boards is that they are representative; that they will be more likely than a national board...
Last week, in a show of strength that can only worsen Lyndon Johnson's al ready battered popularity in the South, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare decided to cut off all fed eral funds from six segregated school districts in Arkansas, Mississippi and South Carolina, bringing to 37 the number deprived of financial assistance in Old Confederacy states. It also is terminating aid, mostly student-loan and construction funds, to South Carolina's Baptist-run Anderson College, making it the first institution of higher learning to have its federal funds...
...year's 6% figure, the rates remain appallingly low in sev eral Deep South states. A dozen years after the U.S. Supreme Court urged "all deliberate speed" in school integration, only one of every 28 Negro chil dren attends classes with whites in Louisiana, one of 31 in Mississippi, one of 42 in Alabama...
...DECORATIVE ARTS OF THE MARINER edited by Gervis Frere-Cook. 296 pages. Little, Brown. $20. Marine art is given its due in this splendid account of state barges, navigational instruments, figureheads, decorative rope and scrimshaw (see cut, opening page). The ships themselves come in all styles and ages from Mississippi steamboats to Malay proas, from Chinese dragon boats to Atlantic liners. An enjoyable whiff...